The Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center (DPELC), is an academic center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and provides intensive, hands-on training for students who want to be transactional lawyers or founders of start-up companies. The DPELC clinical program has serves entrepreneurs while educating future lawyers about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking through a variety of traditional, clinical, and simulation-based course offerings, a marquee annual conference, a speaker series, a transactional law competition, and workshops and outreach efforts in the entrepreneurship community.

The DPELC clinic has a national reach, serving clients in both California and Illinois, and serves as a model for similar programs developed in law schools across the country.